Method of manufacturing chenille



(ModeL) G. F. HENSEL.

METHOD OF MANUFACTURING GHENILLE.

Patented Oct. 17, 1882'.

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GEORGE F. HENSEL, ()F PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA.

METHOD OF MANUFACTURING CHENILLE.

SPECIFICATION formingpart of Letters Patent No. 266,147, dated October17, 1882.

Application filed May 5, 1882. (Modch) scribe, reference being bad tothe accompany ing drawings, in which- Figure 1 is a view of a piece ofchenillemade in the ordinary manner; Fig. 2, a view of a piece of myimproved chenille; Fig. 3,-a view showing the method of twisting up thesame, and Fig.4 a diagram showing themethod of cutting the woven web toform my improved chenille.

In making ordinary chenille welt-threads m are combined withwarp-threads y, arranged so as 'to form bands with intervening spaces,and the wefts are then out between the bands of warps, so as to producea series of strips, each consisting of a central woven band with threadsprojecting from each side of the same. These strips are then twisted, sothat the projeoting threads form spirals with cut edges, as

shown in Fig. 1.

I desire to vary the character of the chenille by alternating spiralshaving cut edges with spirals having uncut or looped edges, as shown inFig. 2; and to do this I discard the usual method of cutting. the web toform the strips, and so sever the said web that each strip shall containat least two bands of warpthreads, the dotted lines, Fig. 4, forinstance, showing how the web is cut to produce the chenille shown-inFig. 2. In twisting the strip the latter is first caused to fold on aline centrally between the warps and paral-v lel therewith, the outedges of the strip being brought together, as shown in Fig. 8, and asthe twisting progresses the folded strip is coiled, as shown, thespirals having cut edges alternating with other spirals having looped oruncut edges, due to the longitudinal folding of the strip on a linebetween and parallel with the warp-bands.

My improved chenille can be manufactured without any increase in cost ascompared with ordinary chenille, because, owing to the G EORGE F. HENSEL.

Witnesses:

HARRY D RURY, HARRY SMITH.

